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DIRECTORY.] HERTFORDSHIRE. LITTLE WYMONDLEY. 277 1889 by the Rev. Frederic Robert Broughton M.A. of Sexton, John Searle. Caius College, Cambridge. Wyddial Hall, a domain of Letters through Buntingford S.O. arrive at 8.45 a.m. J80 acres close to the village, is the seat of Lieut.-Col. Letter Box in the village, cleared at 6,30 p.m. week Charles Henry Brabazon Heaton-Ellis J.P. who is lord of days only. Buntingford, I! miles distant, is the the manor and principal landowner. The soil is heavy; nearest money order & telegraph office suhsoil. clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,537 acres of land and 5 of water; rate Public Elementary School (mixed), built about 1864. able value, £1,827; the population in 1901 was 221 for 40 children; average attendance, 37; Miss A. M. ecclesiastical and 260 civil. Wilderspin, mistress By Local Government! Board Order 14,398, dated This school is under the control of six managers; Lt. ~'larch 25, 1883, detached parts of Lays'on were trans Col. C. H. B. Heaton-Ellis, Wyddial hall, corre ferred to this parish. spondent Broughton Rev. Frederic Robert M.A Bolton George, The Fountain P.H. & :Money Henry, gardener to Lieut.-Col. Heaton-Ellis Lt.-CoL Charles Henry nurseryman C. H. B. Heaton-Ellis J.P Brabazon J.P. Wyddial hall IDawe Joseph, farmer, Wyddial Bury Phillips James, farmer, Home farm GREAT (or MUCH) WYMONDLEY is a parish, 2 near Purwell mill. According to tradition, Edward VI. miles south-east from Hitchin stations on the Great whilst Prince of Wales, slept at the Manor farm, and . Northern and Midland railways, in the Northern division Henry VIII. is said to have stayed at Hitchin and Little of the county, Stevenage petty sessional division, Broad Wymondley Priories whilst visiting Cardinal Wolsey. Ivater hundred, Hitchin union and county court district who then resided here. Delamere House, which for und in the rural deanery of Hitchin and archdeaconry merly belonged to the Cardinal, contains some remains and diocese of St. Albans. The river Purwell flows of fine carved oak panelling and an antique staircase; through the parish. The church of St. Mary the house, which is. in the Elizabethan style, was re dates from the early part of the 12th cen stored in that period. In a field called "Captain's tury, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, south Orchard," adjoining the churchyard on the east, ill porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells, plainly to be traced the site of an ancient fortification, dated respectively 1628, 1595, 1760 and 1716: two widely inclosed by a moat. James Lucas, the Hertfordshire splayed Norman windows still remain on the south side hermit, resided within the precincts of this parish and of the chancel and another on the north; the original was the original of George Mopes, a hermit, in Charles chancel arch and south doorway have also been pre Dickens's Christmas Number, "Tom Tiddler's Ground," served, but thefie and the large octagonal font are all 1861. Miss Wilshere, of The Frythe, Welwyn, is lady the Norman architectural features now remaining: the of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is loam; tower is a good example of the Perpendicular period: subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat and barley. there are some inscriptions to the family of Barnwell, The area is 1,491 acres; rateable value, £4,557; the 1638: in 1883-4 the church was completely restored at population in 1901 was 279. a cost of nearly £2,000, under. the direction of Mr. Titmore Green is I mile south. Joseph Clarke F.S.A. diocesan architect, and was re Todd's Green is I mile south. opened on Thursday, June 10, 1884; the work included Sexton, John Croft. the re-flooring and roofing of the tower, the erection of a new vestry of flint, with Ancaster stone dressings, and the Post Office.--George Brazier, sub-postmaster. Letters refurnishing of the chancel: there are 120 sittings. The arrive from Stevenage at 8.20 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. on register dates from the year 1561. The living is a vicar week .days; sundays, 8.20 a.m. Dispatched, week age, consolidated with that of St. Ippolyts, joint net days, 9.10 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.; sundays, 9.10 a.m. yt-arly value £146, including 134 acres of glebe, with Stevenage is the nearest money order & Graveley, 2 residence, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge, and miles distant, the nearest telegraph office held since 1872 by the Rev. Edmund Theodore Carey Wall Letter Boxes.-'ritmore Green, cleared at 7·45 M.A. of that college, who resides at St. Ippolyts. a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 7.45 a.m.; Todd's Green. Charities amounting in 1890 to £6 14S. 6d. yearly are cleared at 8.15 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 8.15 a.m distributed in bread and money to the poor: these were Public Elementary School (mixed &; infants), built ila left by John Welch in 1623, Robert Tristram, of this 1850, for 50 children; average attendance, 38; Miss parish, in 1731, and James Lucas, of Elm Wood, in 1821. Elizabeth Gray, mistress In 1881 about 20 or 30 Roman urns containing ashes were This school is under the control of six managers; Rev. found here, and in 1884 a Roman villa with a tesselated E. T. Carey, St. Ippolyts vicarage, Hitchin, corre pavement and various coins were discovered in a field spondent Marked thus * receive letters Knight Rev. Robert (Huntingtonian), Hall David, farmer &; horse dealer, through Hitchin. Fernlea cottage, Todds Green The Grange Lock William D. Titmore Green Kitchiner Benjamin Carter, farmer, PRIVATE RESIDENTs. COMMERCIAL. ! Lower Titmore Green Antrobus Edward, Fallow field, Todds Bird William, The Hermit of Red-I Moules Ben, farmer, Titmore Green Green coats P.H. Titmore Green Pallett George T. frmr.Redcoates Grn .Browning Alfred Harry, The Village ho Brazier George, farmer, Post office *Purwell Dairy (Arthur Kingwell, Davis Mrs. White thorns, Todds Grn Dobbs William, tobacconist manager), Purwell Deeley Wm. Alfred, Todds Green *Flitton Albert Edwd. miller (water), Smith William George, nurseryman, Foster Miss, Manor house Purwell mill Lower Titmore Green Gray John Francis, Greenfields Hailey Herbert, farmer, Delamere's & Watson Robert, Green Man P./H Howard Arthur, Redcoates Green Manor farms, & engineer; steam Watson Thomas S. insurance assistant Jeffery Thomas M. Holmesdale cot- cultivating & thrashing machinery supt. Batlea, Todds Green tage, Lower Titmore Green for hire LITTLE WYMONDLEY is a village and parish, on the value £75, with residence, in the gift of Col. Alfred Hertford road, 2 miles north-west from Stevenage station Unwin-Heathcote, of 'Shephalbury, and held since 18g6 on the Great Northern railwlly, and 2~ south-east from by the Rev. Albert Charles Baines. A charity of Ss. Hitchin stations on the Great Northern and Midland rail is distributed annually in bread on St. Andrew's day ways, and 32 from London, in the Northern division of the from a bequest by Thomas Chapman, of Stevenage, clerk, county, Stevenage petty sessional division, Broadwater in 1668. The parish has also a share in the benefac hundred, Hitchin union and county court district, and in tions of John Welch and James Lucas to Great Wymond the rural deanery of Hirehin and archdeaconry and diocese I ley, viz. 10S. and £1 Ss. yearly respectively, the former of St. Albans. The church of the Virgin Mary is a I sum being given in bread, and the latter distributed small building of stone in the Perpendicular style and by the clergy according to their discretion. Here is a is at least the third which has stood on the same site; chapel used by the Congregationalists and other sects, , it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and with sittings for 100 persons. A priory of Augustine an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the canons, ·dedicated to St. Mary and founded by Richard east window is stained and there are three other stained de Argentine in the reign of Henry Ill. formerly windows: the monuments include several to the family existed here, which at the Dissolution had a revenue of Needham, from 1605 to 1726, besides some ancient of £37 10S. 6d.; it was then granted to James Need· inscribed stones: the church was rebuilt, with the ham, clerk and surveyor of the king's "Works. !Henry exception of the tower, in 1875, at a cost of nearly VIII. is said to have slept at the priory whilst visiting £1,200, and affords 130 sittings. The register dates Cardinal Wolsey, who then resided at the adjoining from the year 1650' The living is a vicarage, net yearly parish of Great (or Much) Wymondley. Miss Wilshere..